In the beginning of September 1993, the sun was shining, girls wore short-skirt, there were a lot of empty beer bottles on the floor, some pretty flowers in my garden... Oh sorry, you are here!!! Hum, i didn't remember well what i must gonna write! Ok, beginning of september, what happens important in the world? The Saturne Party? Hey, you weren't there, what a shame! So here is the report that must give you the desire to come next time... So it was on the 4 september, a nice saturday, near Paris, birds were flying in the blue sky (oh, sorry, I think you don't care about this...). My cousin drove me until the party place as i was spending some holidays in his home near the party place... I arrived at 08:15 AM (some minutes after they opened the doors of the center). This wasn't so hard to find it! It seems quite nice and ideal for a party... I entered in the principal hall, there wasn't a lot of people yet! I seized the opportunity to have a first chat with Heinz/Saturne (the organizer of the pingpong compet!), he said that he thought the party will be great... He made me visit the place, showed me the second hall, the bar (the most important thing!). They sold some foods (pizzas, sandwiches) and drinks (why not beers or Tequila?) at a very low price... Near 10:00AM, there was more and more people who was arriving... And everybody was looking for their friends (I saw a lot of mine! Maybe you don't care?). There was nothing special until the pingpong compet, there were some good players as Ether/Saturne, Header/Nova (maybe some them use corruption to win?) but the big surprise was that nobody vote for Pib/Syntex in this compet (Joke!). I made a round as a spy to know what were the group who participated at the compo... Ninja/Angels told me that he finnished a great dentro for the intro compo (64Ko lenght!), Nam/Movement talked about his demo on 1200... Sync (the only one from Dreamdealers!) told me that he hadn't code anything but that Live 2 will be released very soon, hum we haven't any doubt about this (Heu, if you don't know what is LIVE just take a look at the title of this #?!! messagebox! Oh sorry Fletch, i don't wanna said #?!! but just !@+&?!...). We were also waiting for a trackmo from Nova and the demo from Syntex... About some extra production, Shadow/Stellar & Tragedy was looking for some messys to release the Tragedy message box, Locked was ending Chippy Town for the new group Ivory, Eremation were working on their mag and an AGA converter. In the beginning of the night, there were a lot of people in the party, near 400!!! Some famous were arriving late as Melon Dezign, Sanity, Syntex, Scoopex... The deadline was near. It was also time for the Sensible Soccer competition, i lost at the first match but i have some reasons (i used the joystick from Nec/Hemoroid and it was not great! Maybe you don't care about this too? But you have read it! Arf...). As this was the night, the organizers showed some great demo on the bigscreen (they couldn't do it while the day because with the light we couldn't see anything on the screen...). Well, it was the time for the competition... First, the music, 10 modules were selected between more than 40; but the 12 guys selected (in the party people to select (hum it's easy to understand the selection mode? What a nice word select..) seemed to not understand what is a good module because the 10 modules were quite bad! A lot of guys who weren't selected were angry against the organizers but it was too late... Some minutes later, the gfx on A500 competition started... As you know, there is a lot of great graphicians in France, so the level of the compo was very high. We saw a lot of great pictures, but there were also some really bad! Meanwhile the gfx on A1200 were a bit disappointing, it was one of the first such competition with few contributions... Next compo was the A1200 demo... AGA computer owners were impatient to watch all those contribution, unluckly there were only 3 delivered! A trackmo from Intense, an intro from Arkham and a one-file from Oops/Movement, thanks to them for coding on AGA... By viewing these demos, there wasn't any doubt about the winners (and there won't be...). An awaited competition was also the 64K intro competition... There was only 2 or 3 good releases. In this compo too, there wasn't any doubt about the winners, Angels made a whole dentro with 64K... Cryptoburners released a great intro but with few effects! Finnaly late in the night, the demo competition started! We were surprised by the low level of the competition! I think that there were 2 good demos: Aluminium/Syntex and Snake Rider/Nova, all the rest were disappointing... The competition ended around 5:00AM, a lot of people were going to sleep after voting... Nothing special happened until the results: near 13:00PM... There weren't any surprise (take a look at the results), the 1st price in democompo earn 4600F (It's near 900$!!!). Then people started to go out from the Party. And the party finnished in the end of the sunday afternoon... Some conclusions: First, about the stuffs, a lot of people were disappointed by the poor quality... But it could be a motivation for next party, it was easy to earn something here, and if everybody had released a stuffs there wouldn't be so easy, no? So wake up next time... About the organisation, this was quite great for their first party... The selection for the music compo was a little mistake that they will correct next time. And Saturne hope that there will be more foreigners next time... So I think this was a great party and one of the best in France! As Saturne planned to organize the same thing on 3 days in April 94, I imagine that this would be probably one of the events in the scene! So come on everybody...